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Honoring Baghdad’s Devastated Bookselling District

WORDS Posted: January 23, 2014 12:55 am

Not so long ago it was said that Arabic books were written in Cairo, published in Beirut and read in Baghdad. Now hundreds of writers and artists are preparing tributes to the Iraqi capital’s traditional bookselling hub, Al-Mutanabbi Street, which was destroyed in 2007 by a car bomb.

WORDS Published: 01.21.14

Read the story in The Guardian (UK) Published: 01.21.14

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